DAILY, a Chinese RFID manufacturing company, has revealed its new PDA-based DL710 RFID reader. The new reader comes with Bluetooth and camera applications and can also function as a bar code scanner. It is available in both high frequency (13.56MHz) and low frequency (125 KHz) and supports GPRS Voice and Data transfer. DAILY has priced […]

The American National Standards Institute has approved the Health Industry Business Communications Council’s (HIBCC) proposed set of new standards concerning the use of RFID tags in tracking medical products. The new standard, called ANSI/HIBCC 4.0, calls for products to be labeled with 13.56 megahertz high-frequency tags instead of ultra-high frequency tags, which were found by […]

PNC Bank, Pittsburgh, has announced three alliance school relationships that emphasize money management and financial education for the college community. The three contracts–one new, two renewals–are at Arcadia University, Glenside, Penn., Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J., and Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh. Arcadia’s new five-year contract aims to provide the university’s nearly 5,000 students and […]

Perfect Plastic Printing, a St. Charles, Ill. card producer, has rolled out what it calls the first full-face foil PVC card certified by Visa Inc. for contactless payment transactions. More than a year in development, Perfect Plastic’s new card enables card issuers to provide payment cards with the same aesthetic appeal of foil as traditional […]

The July meeting of the Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list […]

To solve the problem of replacing passwords and PINs with regard to online financial transactions or other means where sensitive information may be sent over an unsecured network, researchers from South Africa have developed a new way to use biometrics to both encrypt and unencrypt sent information, according to a Science Daily article. The system, […]

The Commission of Elections (Comelec) in the Philippines is finishing its bidding process for creating a biometric system to replace the commission’s current vote list, according to an Inquirer article. The agency would like to use fingerprint biometrics. The wining bidder is expected to provide 2,200 enrollment machines allowing for each municipality to have at […]